Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn to science ... with concern that the ideas "presaged no good to old beliefs." In other quarters, both religious and scientific ...

Despite the overwhelming evidence and expert consensus, certain scientific facts continue to face public skepticism. From ...

I believe that my forgetfulness is partly ... Like his imposing father, Dr. Robert Darwin, young "Bobby" (as Charles is called) is marked for a medical career -- a respectable pursuit for the ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... Today, we can see how the different beaks serve different purposes. He came to believe that although the different islands had similar plants and animals ...

After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural ... each with a distinct landscape.Contrary to popular belief, Darwin did not have a great eureka moment on the Galapagos. He studied finches ...

Charles Darwin is celebrated as one of the greatest British scientists ... he worried about how his theory of evolution would be received as it challenged widely held religious beliefs of the time. He ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the ... that there is a necessary conflict between a knowledge of Nature and a belief in God… A later, widely believed, rumour of a ...

Charles Darwin's work on evolution theory by natural ... This was at odds with the long-established religious belief that God had created all creatures, great and small. Darwin studied the ...

During his famed voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin noted about the Galápagos Islands that “by far the most remarkable feature in the natural history of this archipelago…is that the ...

On Wednesday, April 26, 1882, the body of Charles Darwin is laid ... see evolution as anathema to faith. Darwin himself stressed that evolution and religion were not incompatible.

So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account of his trip around the coast of South America, between the islands of the Galápagos, and back to England—a journey that inspired ...